| Week |
Topics |
Class Formats |
Deliverables |
Readings |
| Week 1 |
Course Overview
Discussions and brainstorming
Introduction Information Visualization
Visual perception |
Jan 6: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Jan 9: Lecture & discussion (Peggy Storey) |
None |
Chapter 1 |
| Week 2 |
Knowledge representation
Mind mapping
Visualizing knowledge |
Jan 13: Lecture (Peggy Storey)
Jan 16: Lecture, demos and discussion (Peggy Storey & Neil Ernst ) |
Ass 1
|
Ontology 101 paper
(Optional)
What is
Knowledge Representation |
| Week 3 |
Multi-variate visualization
1D/2D/3D visualization
Graph drawing
Trees, networks |
Jan 20: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Jan 23: Lecture, videos, demos, discussion (Peggy Storey) |
Ass 2
|
Chapter 2
pp.35-37; pp.57-82; pp.93-114; pp. 126-139; pp. 149-159; pp. 207-230.
Graph drawing paper |
| Week 4 |
Context & Detail
Fisheye Views
Zoomable interfaces |
Jan 27: Lecture (Peggy Storey)
Jan 30: Videos, demos, small group exercises (Peggy Storey) |
Ass 3
|
Chapter 3.3
Chapter 4 |
| Week 5 |
Software Visualization
Workshop notes |
Feb 3: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Feb 6: Workshop (presenters:
Piotr Kaminski
and Stephen Kerr; discussants:
Jeff Cockburn, Abram Hindle, Reid Garner and Vilas Rao) |
Critique 1
|
Chapter 5.1, pp. 419-430 (Seesoft)
Chapter 2, pp. 190-206 (SemNet)
Chapter 1, pp. 160-182 (space filling softvis)
Cognitive questions in software visualization |
| Week 6 |
Collaborative Visualization
Information Workspaces
Social Visualization
Shared devices
Workshop notes |
Feb 10: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Feb 13: Workshop (presenters:
James Chisan and
Marcus Csaky; discussants:
Azarin Jazaveri, Suzanne Thompson, Mike Richard, and Jesse Wesson) |
Critique 2
|
Chapter 6.2
Benefits in seeing double? A study of Collaborative Information
Visualization |
| Week 7 |
Creative Design and Innovation |
Feb 17: Guest speaker:
Dr. Daniel Laskarin, Professor, Visual Arts, UVic (talk
and design activity at the Visual Arts Building, meet at 11:20)
Feb 20: No class due to reading break |
None
|
No readings |
| Week 8 |
Effective View navigation
Evaluation and characterization of visualization tools
Research methods |
Feb 24: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Feb 27: Guest speaker (Mechthild Maczewski) on research methodologies, discussion |
Project proposal |
Effective view navigation
Characterizing Interactive Externalizations by Lisa Tweedie,
see textbook, pp. 616 (textbook)
(optional)
An Introduction to the Cognitive Dimensions Framework by T R G Green
|
| Week 9 |
Hypertext and document
visualization
Managing and visualizing
medical information and knowledge |
Mar 3/7: Short Lecture and
2 Workshops (topics to be refined closer to the time)
Presenters:
Stirling Chow, Samuel Leung, David Perrin and Sarah Wilkin
Discussants:
Greg Brewster, Kristy Gabelhouse, Mamiko Hara and Melanie Wright |
Critique 3
Meetings with instructor to discuss project proposal |
Automatic Analysis, ...., see pp.
413 in the textbook
As we may
think, by Vannevar Bush
Xanadu
project, by Ted Nelson
(optional) Conklin, J. Hypertext: An introduction and
survey. IEEE Computer 20, 9 (1987), 17-41. |
| Week 10 |
Queries and visualizations
Digital image management |
Mar 10: Lecture (Peggy
Storey)
Mar 13: Guest speaker: Tricia D'entremont; design fest |
Critique 4 |
Chapter 3.1 and 3.2 in the
textbook |
| Week 11 |
Visualization and handheld devices
(Victor Chong)
Digital image management on the camera
Visualization and GIS systems,
maps (Neil Ernst)
Visualization -- Industry Perspective (Jeff Michaud) |
Mar 17: Guest speakers (Victor Chong and Daniel German), discussionMar
20: Lecture (Neil Ernst, Jeff Michaud), discussion
|
|
None |
| Week 12 |
Gild: Groupware Enabled
Integrated and Learning Environment
eLearning - knowledge management
and visualization
eTainment visualizations and visualization for children |
Mar 24: eLearning (Peggy
Storey)
Mar 27: Workshop (presenters:
Humberto Solis
and Lara Wear; discussants:
Glen Kiessling, Alison Mason, Marlon Pasta and Glenn Saqui) |
Ass 4
|
None |
| Week 13 |
Project presentations:
VideoBench
Email Viz
Visualization
Lens |
Mar 31: Student
presentations: emailViz and CVS Lens
Apr 3: Student presentations: VideoBench, CVSViz and TreeViz |
Project reports due by April 11th
Critique #5 (optional in lieu
of participation, due by April 11)
Ass 5 (optional in lieu of partcipation,
due by April 11) |
None |
